Chicago L-1A Visa Attorney for IT Managers

Illinois Immigration Lawyer for Executives

Information technology managers are crucial to business operations today. The success of a company depends on its ability to remain abreast of cutting edge IT developments and to utilize the technology to its advantage. Given the scope of today’s international marketplace, many businesses are connected as affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies or branch offices with business in foreign countries. As business needs change and expand, employees from foreign offices, including IT managers, general managers and executives, sales managers and marketing managers, are frequently transferred to one of the company’s U.S. operations.

When an IT manager is transferred from a foreign company to one of its “qualifying organizations” within the United States, the employee may be eligible for an L-1A work visa. The skilled employment visa attorneys at The Shapiro Law Group have considerable experience helping businesses meet their employment needs by hiring and transferring foreign employees while complying with U.S. immigration laws and regulations. Our knowledgeable business visa attorneys are familiar with the requirements and petition process of the L-1A visa as it pertains to IT managers, as well as other managers and executives.

Qualifications of IT Manager and the Employer

Unless the employer has obtained a blanket L-1 authorization, the transferred employee must have worked for a parent, subsidiary, affiliate or branch office of the U.S. Company for at least one continuous year within the previous three years and be employed in a managerial or executive capacity.

The employer must be a parent company, branch office, subsidiary or affiliate of the foreign company from which the employee is transferred and be doing business as an employer in the United States and at least one other country for the duration of the transferred employee’s stay in the United States under the L-1A visa.

Authorization Period

A manager or executive is eligible to work in the United States pursuant to a valid L1A visa for up to three years, and up to seven years pursuant to an L-1A transfer visa. Spouses of general managers and executives that obtain an L-1A work visa are eligible for employment authorization pursuant to an L-2 employment visa.

IT Management and Immigration Experience You Can Trust

The skilled Chicago IT employment visa attorneys at The Shapiro Law Group have more than 30 years of experienced helping businesses comply with immigration regulations as they fulfill their employment needs by hiring and transferring foreign employees. Our Chicago business immigration attorneys understand the ever-changing international marketplace and the need for highly-qualified IT managers and executives, as well as the job functions that IT managers and executives serve.

We are able to draw on our knowledge of the IT manager job functions and our considerable legal knowledge regarding immigration and visa requirements in order to ensure properly submitted L-1A visa applications. Contact one of our Chicago-area employment immigration attorneys at (847) 564-0712 to discuss your visa transfer needs.

Located in Northbrook, Illinois and downtown Chicago, The Shapiro Law Group serves corporate immigration clients throughout the United States (New York, Texas, California, and Florida) and the Midwest (Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin). We also represent individuals and families in the Chicago, Illinois area, including Northbrook, Elk Grove, Evanston, Elgin, Skokie, Aurora, Naperville, Schaumburg, Des Plaines, Waukegan, Arlington Heights, and Palatine, as well as St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Milwaukee, WI; Gary, IN; and Des Moines, IA.